Aaron, Andrea, Victor
April 9, 2010
The YouTube video entitled, “Social Media Revolution” demonstrates how the arrival of new and modern technologies are reshaping our global culture and also provides some surprising facts about “Web 2.0” websites. These sites include the following: Google™, Facebook™, YouTube™, Wikipedia™, et. Al. Past and current technological transformations were also presented; predictions were given about what will possibly proceed. A noteworthy compilation of facts was about how rapidly it took mainstream culture to accept certain technologies, the foregoing shows how long a specific technology took to reach a target user audience of 50 million people. For radio, it took 38 years, TV, 13 years, internet, 4 years, and iPod, 3 years.
One must wonder what is next? As well as mull about how fast the rate of increasing assimilation or acceptance these future technologies will progress? We envisaged that this will eventually, we assume, lead to practically all activities taking place over virtual and computerized networks, such as, the Internet. Corporations which depend upon these information and social technologies will bombard and persuade us into utilizing them by the application of sophisticated, subtle, or conspicuous and contemporaneous advertisements and propaganda. Assiduous exposure to these advertisements would most likely influence us enough to join into these company reticulations which will, in all verisimilitude, cause us to form entire virtual structures from which all social and communicative activity will take place. As soon as a new technology enters the mass market, it undergoes a process of rapid adaptation at an incredible quickness, with this rate of acclimization being augmented exponentially, that is just our hypothesis.
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I think that this group did a good job summerizing the overall video. They did a good job in utilizing some of the "They Say, I Say" format in avoiding boring list, but rather sum up the video with well organized ideas and represent Eric Qualman's ideas with distortion.
ReplyDeleteDespite our time limit in class, this summary is very organized and well thought out of. I like the path this group has chosen for the summary. Instead of only explaining how technology is affecting us, it emphasizes on how advertisements and propaganda is persuading us to buy these material things.It also has a great balance between what the original author is arguing about, and the insight of the groups focus..just like what 'They Say,I Say' insist on doing.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to what Aaron, Andrea, and Victor have summarized:
ReplyDeleteTraditionally, students went to school and learned via chalkboard, pencil, and paper. Nowadays, if you don't have a computer, you're in a world of trouble where schoolwork is concerned. It seems to me, more and more are becoming online independant, the 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students outperformed those receiving face to face instruction. Successful social media companies are more outgoing party planners and aggregators, than traditional advertisers. In other words, school is becoming more for fun and socializing, and is becoming less for learning, because the way technology is right now, you can do your classwork or homework anywhere, not just in school.